"You just don't expect a train derailment here in Australia." Well, she obviously doesn't keep up with the news, because they happen with disconcerting frequency. Indeed, this was the fourth XPT derailment since 2000. Indeed, this was the SECOND time that that train had derailed that day. It had derailed on its journey from Sydney to Melbourne, but rerailed itself without the crew being aware of the derailment. www.atsb.gov.au/publications/investigation_reports/2014/rair/ro-2014-013/
Relatives of mine were on The Overland, when it came off at Montieth. in 1975. By all accounts a very scary experience. Though the train remained coupled, it was probably doing line speed (110-115 Km/H) & the carrige traveled over 100m , before stopping. As the seconds (that feel like minutes) pass luggage in the overhead racks fall on people, who are themselves flung about. Even the rotating seats, that require a hefty push, to spin them around, were tossing about. & finally we have stopped. My aunt desperate to get to her 10 year old daughter,in the toilets fighting against the movement & falling luggage as she went down the isle. Only to find the door to the toilet was stuck. A waitress in the buffet was scalded by an urn & a woman in a sleeping compartment had a rail pierce her roomette. She was very lucky & there were no major injuries. Just 3 years earlier, the Overland came off near Ballarat & zig zagged across the railway line, almost hitting a house. All you need are flimsy wooded cars (which were still common in the 1970s) & a bridge hit by the locomotive & you have the Grandville Disaster, sort of the railway version of the Hobart Bridge Disaster. Soon after, old wooden cars, were once again, turned to matchwood, in the Laverton Derailment. & going back to the Southern Aurora crash. considering the damage to the train, it's amazing the death was so low. The strength of the modern steel cars (& many passengers being in the dining car, mid train) was the reason.
Maybe time to retire the very old XPT fleet, they seem to be nothing but trouble
Now we gave another xpt derailment two drivers sadly died.
Far out
"You just don't expect a train derailment here in Australia." Well, she obviously doesn't keep up with the news, because they happen with disconcerting frequency. Indeed, this was the fourth XPT derailment since 2000.
Indeed, this was the SECOND time that that train had derailed that day. It had derailed on its journey from Sydney to Melbourne, but rerailed itself without the crew being aware of the derailment.
www.atsb.gov.au/publications/investigation_reports/2014/rair/ro-2014-013/
Relatives of mine were on The Overland, when it came off at Montieth. in 1975.
By all accounts a very scary experience.
Though the train remained coupled, it was probably doing line speed (110-115 Km/H) & the carrige traveled over 100m , before stopping.
As the seconds (that feel like minutes) pass luggage in the overhead racks fall on people, who are themselves flung about. Even the rotating seats, that require a hefty push, to spin them around, were tossing about.
& finally we have stopped. My aunt desperate to get to her 10 year old daughter,in the toilets fighting against the movement & falling luggage as she went down the isle. Only to find the door to the toilet was stuck.
A waitress in the buffet was scalded by an urn & a woman in a sleeping compartment had a rail pierce her roomette. She was very lucky & there were no major injuries.
Just 3 years earlier, the Overland came off near Ballarat & zig zagged across the railway line, almost hitting a house.
All you need are flimsy wooded cars (which were still common in the 1970s) & a bridge hit by the locomotive & you have the Grandville Disaster, sort of the railway version of the Hobart Bridge Disaster. Soon after, old wooden cars, were once again, turned to matchwood, in the Laverton Derailment.
& going back to the Southern Aurora crash. considering the damage to the train, it's amazing the death was so low. The strength of the modern steel cars (& many passengers being in the dining car, mid train) was the reason.
Ah yes the final destination three train cars
We didn,t know what happen?
A curve as tight as the governments railway funding (fishes ass, eat you heart out).
it was a points fault metro trains were at fault for this